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here's another old computer thread like i've made every couple of years someone recycled an hp 9000 model 832 pa-risc hp-ux server here and there's no way for me to rescue it and it's not worth enough to keep it on a shelf and sell on ebay probably  there were some D-series servers too 
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one time i was at the thrift store and they had a TRS-80 Model 100 (one of the portable ones) for $25 i didnt buy it for some reason and i still regret it
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Sep 23, 2017 19:26
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work took down all the old computers they had on display. sucks. anyways i have a powerbook op can i join
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Sep 23, 2017 21:06
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does this still exist? I can ask some people if they're interested. also atomicthumbs do you IRC?
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Sep 23, 2017 21:08
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eschaton posted:does this still exist? I can ask some people if they're interested. it exists and is in the back, idk if my boss would want to go through trouble for it if it's not worth a decent amount, unless they can pick it up today in the north bay i used to irc more and i have a quassel install idling on a number of channels, but not very much lately
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Sep 23, 2017 21:10
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old computers are cool my NeXTstation is less than happy with the SCSI2SD that I put in it, lots of random SCSI errors it seems to power through, I need to find the right combination of settings to make it happy
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Sep 23, 2017 21:10
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I just bought an Atari Jaguar and a USB-connected debugging board.
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Sep 24, 2017 06:02
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Luigi Thirty posted:I just bought an Atari Jaguar and a USB-connected debugging board. so jelly
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id like a nextstation but every one ive seen needed a ton of effort and apple is still hiding service packs i guess? lol
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pram posted:id like a nextstation but every one ive seen needed a ton of effort and apple is still hiding service packs i guess? lol "hiding service packs" as if there was anything at all done on OPENSTEP past 4.2 patch 4 (the Y2K update), the suite of beta drivers for Intel hardware that were released at the same time (like the VESA driver) were the end of it as far as I know you can find OPENSTEP 4.2 easily enough, same with the image of the 1.44MB boot floppy needed to install the OS, and same with the post-install patches I've never seen black hardware take lots of effort, you just need a working SCSI disk over 500MB and under 2GB and a non-suck SCSI CD-ROM drive (like pretty much any Apple or Sun drive) and it's dirt simple to get up and running my only difficulty with my NeXTstation has been due to SCSI2SD initially exposing geometry that gives newfs fits, and subsequently being flaky in ways that real HDs usually aren't
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Sep 24, 2017 09:36
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i want a bebox
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Sep 24, 2017 09:57
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they're kinda neat, and surprisingly zippy I need to dig up my media and restore it to the latest OS it'll take (not the latest released, alas, logic board's old enough not to have enough room in flash for the boot ROM) it even has the blinky front panel and GeekPort
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Sep 24, 2017 10:03
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I picked up a G4 Cube on eBay and it came with a Cinema Display. Clearly a dad bought it and never used it and his teenage kid took it over because the HD was full of 2002-era songs in iTunes. I put a gig of RAM into it and an SSD. Because Safari doesn't understand modern TLS, TenFourFox works but writhes in agony when having to browse the 'modern web' (no fan so you cannot hear it scream)
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Sep 24, 2017 14:15
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run Mac OS 9 and Classilla on it
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Sep 24, 2017 18:40
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OS9 and every After Dark collection from http://macintoshgarden.org/search/node/after%20dark
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Sep 24, 2017 19:26
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After dark was so cool
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Sep 24, 2017 19:41
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ev nova, op
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atomicthumbs posted:i want a bebox they only sold like ~1,000 beboxes they are p. rare
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Jimmy Carter posted:I picked up a G4 Cube on eBay and it came with a Cinema Display. install linux on it
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Sep 25, 2017 14:37
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hey so uh if anyone in the bay area wants to pay my boss $200-250 for the HP 9000 i put the cards back in and slud it under a table it probably won't be there past the end of the week
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Sep 25, 2017 21:13
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:install linux on it i have my g3 imac set up to triple boot os9/tiger/ubuntu it owns
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 My office from left to right: TRS-80 Model 100 VT220 SGI Octane2 Macintosh SE Osborne 1 Everything except the Mac (bad HDD) and Osborne (bad memory) work 100%
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Sep 26, 2017 02:46
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Raere posted:
which one are you are posting from?
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Sep 26, 2017 02:55
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model 100 as a portable posting station right?
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Sep 26, 2017 02:57
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akadajet posted:which one are you are posting from? The SGI via the fsn graphical filesystem program
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Sep 26, 2017 02:59
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eschaton posted:model 100 as a portable posting station right? the model 100 modem port only has pulse dialing which is just too new for me
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Luigi Thirty posted:i have my g3 imac set up to triple boot os9/tiger/ubuntu it owns its been years, but i remember being impressed with how well ubuntu ran on my g3. i should fish out my g3 beige pizza box and make it a vintage os9 box, though. thatd be a nice weekend project and give it something to do besides run xpostfacto [quote="“Raere”" post="“476767765”"] My office from left to right: TRS-80 Model 100 VT220 SGI Octane2 Macintosh SE Osborne 1 Everything except the Mac (bad HDD) and Osborne (bad memory) work 100% [/quote] i always thought the sgis looked cool as heck tbh
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Sep 26, 2017 03:03
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i've got a TRS-80 model 100 sitting around but it doesn't work  it doesn't turn on
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i have an old toshiba laptop w/ a 486 33mhz i kno that doesnt sound impressive but it's the first laptop model ever released with lithium ion batteries yeah i kno still not impressive
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Sep 26, 2017 05:01
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Raere posted:
nice hoarding pile
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Sep 26, 2017 05:20
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Bloody posted:nice hoarding pile it's a curated display of vintage technology 
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Agile Vector posted:its been years, but i remember being impressed with how well ubuntu ran on my g3. i should fish out my g3 beige pizza box and make it a vintage os9 box, though. thatd be a nice weekend project and give it something to do besides run xpostfacto they are even cooler inside than out memory bandwidth to die for a crossbar switch instead of a system bus 1990s numa a weird and terrible unix with odd and nifty features
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Luigi Thirty posted:i've got a TRS-80 model 100 sitting around but it doesn't work you can probably make it turn on easily enough if it's not a corrosion problem, with just a recap
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I determined that my PowerBook 100 wasn't booting because the power supply is busted, so a little bit of banging things together let me power it from my bench supply… …to discover both its HD and its display also aren't working the display is probably just a cable, seems to be a common problem, it may even just need reseating; the backlight turns on, but the contrast and brightness controls have no effect the HD is probably toast, unless just letting it warm up sufficiently gets it working or something (I've seen that happen), at least it has external SCSI and it seemed to boot a System 7 Disk Tools floppy from its matched floppy drive other than that the hardware is in fine, fine shape: even the battery contacts look smooth and polished, there's no gunk in the trackball whatsoever, the flip-down feet are both still intact as is the back cover latch, and there's not even thumb wear on the space bar, it seems barely used what's weird about it is that the bag it came in was a bit beat up, maybe the computer was never really used but still carried from one home to another or something
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Sep 26, 2017 09:55
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when i threw my visualize c200 in the trash after years of maintaining my own patches to keep bad linux software running on hp-ux i decided against ever again going into old hardware obsessions
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where you went wrong was trying to keep bad Linux software running you should be using mostly period software on those old systems, with nice minimal bridges to modern ones (says the guy who got mbedTLS and libssh2 building on Mac OS 9, and has done a little hacking towards making QuickLisp work on Macintosh Common Lisp…)
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My old work had a couple of MicroVAXes 'just in case' til a few years ago. They wouldn't let me take one home when they got chucked out
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Raere posted:
whats it like working at the dump?
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Shaggar posted:whats it like working at the dump? you should know, that's where you were conceived
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SmokaDustbowl posted:you should know, that's where you were conceived 
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